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We have many good researchers in our Library. However, every now and then we have a College student who makes us scratch our heads and wonder, "How did s/he ever get this far?"
The young man in question was researching Alexander the Great. He made some good choices and seemed to know what he was doing. Well, it SEEMED that way until he wanted photocopies.
In our library, researchers don't make their own photocopies. The researcher fills out a form and Library staff members do the actual photocopying. The form was the kicker here.
Most people here are readers and we know how to read the typography on the dust jacket of a book. Here's what the jacket of a book from which our researcher needed copies:
[CENTER]CONQUEST
the life and times of
AND
Alexander the Great
EMPIRE. [CENTER]
I think that most of us would read that as:
"Conquest and Empire: the Life and Times of Alexander the Great".
Our researcher (and honors class College student ) didn't read that at all. On his photocopy order form he carefully wrote it down as:
"Conquest the Life and Times of and Alexander the Great Empire".
Jeebus wept
i
The young man in question was researching Alexander the Great. He made some good choices and seemed to know what he was doing. Well, it SEEMED that way until he wanted photocopies.
In our library, researchers don't make their own photocopies. The researcher fills out a form and Library staff members do the actual photocopying. The form was the kicker here.
Most people here are readers and we know how to read the typography on the dust jacket of a book. Here's what the jacket of a book from which our researcher needed copies:
[CENTER]CONQUEST
the life and times of
AND
Alexander the Great
EMPIRE. [CENTER]
I think that most of us would read that as:
"Conquest and Empire: the Life and Times of Alexander the Great".
Our researcher (and honors class College student ) didn't read that at all. On his photocopy order form he carefully wrote it down as:
"Conquest the Life and Times of and Alexander the Great Empire".
Jeebus wept
i
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